Because hegemonic masculinity operates as a cultural model it pertains within a culture (17), and there may be multiple hegemonic masculinities (especially in multi-ethic settings) (17, 18).
For example, a participant, described as being more engaged with hegemonic masculinity explained his partner's role in his dieting: 31 …my wife is a real Trojan as far as meals and that sort of thing are concerned, because she knows how to cook and she does it all for me, she doesn't have to, but she does.
As the example of Macho Factory shows, this involves a reflective process that constantly brings the theoretical concept of hegemonic masculinity into conversation with the practical challenges of intervention work.
This seeming paradox between hyper masculinity and caring masculinities appears to be embedded within military culture, perhaps reflecting the flexibility and ambiguity inherent in constructions of hegemonic masculinity.
Women face significant barriers adjusting to the professional culture of engineers, which is strongly connected to hegemonic masculinity.
In this manner a caring ethos in which some admissions of weakness may be permissible is situated within hegemonic masculinity.
The carpenters seemed to more actively embrace hegemonic masculinity and reject what is feminine than the engineers, who have reformulated their definition of masculinity to encompass concerns with health.
We found that in a military setting hegemonic masculinity is embedded in the construction of a soldier identity and expression of emotion may be seen as inappropriate.
As such, most strive to enact and replicate hegemonic masculinity so that they achieve status among male peers, and pre-emptively guard against accusations or perceptions that their masculinity is deficient".
At such a rate of progress the company might tip over from hegemonic masculinity to gender parity round about the time Zuck's daughter is headed to college.
Connell's well-known theory of Hegemonic Masculinity (1987) similarly argues that society privileges a single version of masculinity above all others, which guarantees the dominant position of men and the subordination of women.
